Crescent Cherry Pie Bites
The recipe I’m sharing today was one that was partly inspired by my Easy Apple and Cheese Danishes and Cinna-Minis. I love to use crescent rolls to come up with fun and easy desserts. Plus, these are desserts my family can easily make themselves without a whole lot of assistance from me if they want to whip up a little something sweet.
We really loved these! The best thing about them is you can totally cater to what your family loves for a pie filling. There are just so many possibilities here. You could use Apple, Blueberry, Strawberry, Lemon and Chocolate pie fillings!
Ingredients:
1 (21 oz.) can cherry pie filling
2 tubes crescent roll dough
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp. milk
Preheat oven to 375F degrees. Spray regular muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Unroll individual crescent roll dough pieces and lay them in individual tins. Put the widest bit of the dough in the bottom. You may have to do this in two batches if you only have the one muffin tin.
Scoop pie filling into each crescent roll dough piece. Be generous with the pie filling. It’s okay if a little seeps out during baking. I actually like when you can see the bit of pie filling bubbling out while baking. It also lets folks see what they are gonna be eating before then even bite into it. You want to bite into these and get a nice taste of the cherry filling. Because remember, the dough is really gonna puff up around these. A good 3 to 4 heaping tablespoons should work. I’m guessing about 6 or so cherries in each one. I think I could have even put more filling than in the ones you see here. Start folding the dough around the filling as best you can. You should have three corners to pull in.
Again, leaving small open gaps are totally okay here. The filling doesn’t have to be totally covered. The dough is gonna puff up.
With a spoon, drizzle glaze over the warm bites. Note: I put my bites on a cooling rack with some wax paper underneath but you can drizzle the glaze on these while they are still in the muffin tin.
Enjoy!
Cherry Pie Bites
Ingredients
- 1 21 oz can cherry pie filling
- 2 tubes crescent roll dough
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- Spray regular muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
- Unroll individual crescent roll dough pieces and lay them in individual tins. Put the widest bit of the dough in the bottom.
- Scoop pie filling into each crescent roll dough piece. Be generous with the pie filling. It's okay if a little seeps out during baking. A good 3 to 4 heaping tablespoons should work.
- Start folding the dough around the filling as best you can, pulling in the three corners.
- Bake for about 13-14 minutes.
- In a bowl, whisk together powdered sugar and milk until it is smooth reaches a desired consistency
- With a spoon, drizzle glaze over the warm bites.
Notes
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These look so yummy. I don't cook a lot anymore, so easy recipes are great. Can't wait to have my granddaughters bake these with me. Thank you for posting these easy recipes!
Making these today with strawberry Pie filling & will add a tsp. of my homemade vanilla extract to the glaze. Thanks for sharing!
I made these with blueberries as well as the mixed berry. Super yummy, easy and crowd pleaser.
Wow….I'm craving cherry turnovers. Think I'll make these instead!
I always appreciate printable recipes as I don't have a computer even close to the kitchen! Thanks!
I want to make these but I live alone. Can they be frozen?
Laraine–totally freezable.
These look so good. What about sweet potato pie filling? Do you think they would work. I have a can of sheet crescent dough and was thinking about making miniature sweet potato pies.
These look wonderful!
Could pumpkin pie filling be used?
Pumpkin pie filling is usually pretty runny so I don’t think it would hold up well in these. You need a thick pie filling.
I saw someone asked on March 18 and October 13 about if these can be frozen and how to thaw them when you are ready to serve? Also do the instructions stay the same if you use different fruit? Also with icing?
Hi Jessica! I have never frozen them so unfortunately I can’t give instructions on that. Perhaps someone else here has and can help with that. The instructions will be the same with the different pie fillings. 🙂
I made these today for Valentines day. 8 cherry pie filling, 8 apple pie filling and 8 dark chocolate chip filling. Had to test sample….yummy. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! Thank you Renee!!
I have made these before for my boys and they are so good and extremely easy to make! Pillsbury makes cherry and Apple turnovers that you can get in the refrigerated section of your local grocery store that are just as good but so much more expensive! These are way more economical! Crescent rolls are very cheap and I always buy my pie filling at Dollar Tree where it’s always only a $1.00 which is so cheap for pie filling! I can feed my family of 5 on these for about $3.00 which is a lot better than buying 3 boxes of the Pillsbury kind at about $4.00 a box!
I’m trying this with blueberries and drizzling with a lemon glaze.
Jennifer, how did this turn out?
I’ve made these twice now. The second time I used the foil cupcake liners. BIG mistake! The bottoms were not brown and were a bit gooey. They turned out much better in a greased tin. I also used “no sugar added” cherry pie filling due to diabetics in my family. A light confectioner sugar drizzle was just enough sweetness to make them super good! This is a wonderful quick and dirty dessert that will be a staple in my house!
Omg so fantastic. A cross between a doughnut and a desert.
My family loved it. Thanks for sharing.
Yay! Love hearing that!! Thank you Kate!